Tamir Rice Legacy Honored at Cleveland Museum of Art

Wed 11/20 @ 6PM

It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since Tamir Rice has been gone. And it was just like week that the officer who tackled his sister when she ran to her dying brother, handcuffed her and threw her in a squad car, was recommended for a 6-10 day suspension. After FIVE YEARS. That the police union said it intends to fight even that slap on the wrist shows how little some attitudes have changed, even as Tamir has become a rallying symbol among those fighting police violence against the black community.

In light of that, the determination and strength of Tamir’s mother, Samaria Rice, becomes even more formidable. Last year, she announced plans for the Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center that would provide black youth with not just arts and cultural but also civic programming — teaching them how to work to change the communities they live in to make them fairer, safer and more responsive to the needs of their people.

To share an update on plans for the center and to celebrate Tamir on the fifth anniversary of his death, there’ll be an evening of arts and conversation at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, with Opal Tometi as mistress of ceremonies.

There Samaria Rice and architect Sandra Madison will share the latest plans for the center, Jasiri X and Lexy Lattimore will perfom, the short documentary Traveling While Black will be shown, and artists/activists Michael Rakowitz (who put together the exhibit A Color Removed at SPACES for last year’s FRONT Triennial), EJ Hill, Shelia Pree Bright, and Amanda D. King of Cleveland’s Shooting Without Bullets project will speak.

The evening will also include a conversation between nationally known, northeast Ohio-based writer Bakari Kitwana, and Chicago artist Theaster Gates, whose Stony Island Arts Bank on the south side of Chicago is the current location of the gazabo where Tamir was shot by police. They’ll look at how art and activism can combine to further of racial equity and justice.

It’s free; reserve your ticket here.

Learn more about the center and how to support it here.

Cleveland, OH 44106

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One Response to “Tamir Rice Legacy Honored at Cleveland Museum of Art”

  1. Claudia Andrews

    AMEN

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